[mythtv-users] Capturecard names and multirec tuners

[Tom Dexter]

On 4/5/19, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> I have never found a way to adjust the names for the multirec tuners
> in mythtv-setup.  It is possible it is there now, but I am missing it.
> In any case, it was not there when I did it many years ago.  So what I
> did was to use SQL to directly edit the displayname fields in the
> database.  If you use one of the many GUI tools (eg Heidi SQL for
> Windows), it is not too difficult.  Or you can write a simple SQL
> script, for example, put this in a file "displaynames.sql":
>

As far as I can tell you're correct that this is the only means of
getting those unique display names. I spend almost all of my
professional life with MySQL and have been for more than a decade so
that's not an issue.

Thanks!
Tom